DragonForce expanded its ransomware operation in 2025 by working with English-speaking hackers known for advanced social engineering and initial access. Acronis explains how the “Scattered Spider” collaboration enables coordinated, multistage intrusions across major environments. […]
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Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack
In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second. […]
University of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack
The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025. […]
Korea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras
The Korean National Police have arrested four individuals suspected of hacking over 120,000 IP cameras across the country and then selling stolen footage to a foreign adult site. […]
FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an incident in 2021 that exposed info of 10 million students. […]
ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users
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Shai-Hulud 2.0 NPM malware attack exposed up to 400,000 dev secrets
The second Shai-Hulud attack last week exposed around 400,000 raw secrets after infecting hundreds of packages in the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry and publishing stolen data in 30,000 GitHub repositories. […]
Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts
Microsoft is working to mitigate an ongoing incident that has been blocking access to some Defender XDR portal capabilities for the past 10 hours. […]
Cybercrime Goes SaaS: Renting Tools, Access, and Infrastructure
Cybercrime has fully shifted to a subscription model, with phishing kits, Telegram OTP bots, infostealer logs, and even RATs now rented like SaaS tools. Varonis explains how this “crime-as-a-service” economy lowers the barrier to entry and gives low-skill attackers on-demand access to advanced capabilities. […]
North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme
In an unprecedented intelligence operation, security researchers exposed how North Korean IT recruiters target and lure developers into renting their identities for illicit fundraising. […]